On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> ...looks like about a 10-line patch. We have the data to show that
> the loss is trivial even in the worst case, and we have or should be
> able to get data showing that the best-case win is significant even
> without the abbreviated key stuff. If you'd care to draft a patch for
> just that, I assume we could get it committed in a day or two, whereas
> I'm quite sure that considerably more work than that remains for the
> main patch.
OK, I'll draft a patch for that today, including similar alterations
to varstr_cmp() for the benefit of Windows and so on.
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Peter Geoghegan